Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Kato

Toshihiro Kato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240096913
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging element capable of increasing a channel area of a pixel transistor and reducing a parasitic capacitance of a gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: AKIHIKO KATO, TOSHIHIRO KUROBE, AKIKO HONJO, KOICHI BABA, NAOHIKO KIMIZUKA, YOHEI HIROSE, TOYOTAKA KATAOKA, TAKUYA TOYOFUKU
  • Patent number: 11812071
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20220384804
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material is constituted by lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide particles having a layered rock salt type crystal structure and are composed of secondary particles each formed of an aggregation of primary particles. The secondary particles have a d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 1.8 to 5.5 m2/g, a pore peak diameter of 0.01 to 0.30 ?m, and a log differential pore volume [dV/d(log D)] of 0.2 to 0.6 ml/g within a range of the pore peak diameter. In each of a plurality of primary particles having a primary particle size of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m, a coefficient of variation of the concentration of an additive element M is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Hayashi, Shun Kai Bong, Toshihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20220376243
    Abstract: The positive electrode active material is capable of reducing positive electrode resistance, exhibiting better output characteristics, and having high mechanical strength when the positive electrode active material is used in a lithium ion secondary battery. Secondary particles have a d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 2.0 to 5.0 m2/g, a tap density of 1.0 to 2.0 g/cm3, and an oil absorption amount of 30 to 60 ml/100 g. In each of a plurality of primary particles having a primary particle size of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m, a coefficient of variation of the concentration of an additive element M is 1.5 or less. The volume of a linking section between the primary particles per primary particle, obtained from the total volume of the linking section and the number of primary particles constituting the secondary particles, is 5×105 to 9×107 nm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Hayashi, Shun Kai Bong, Shinsuke Suganuma, Toshihiro Kato, Jiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20220367859
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide particles containing an additive element M1 and includes a coating layer formed of a metal composite oxide of Li and a metal element M2 on a part of a surface of the particles. The particles have a d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 2.0 to 5.0 m2/g, a tap density of 1.0 to 2.0 g/cm3, and an oil absorption amount of 30 to 60 ml/100 g. For each of a plurality of primary particles having a primary particle size within a range of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m among the primary particles, a coefficient of variation of the concentration of M1 is 1.5 or less, and the amount of M2 is 0.1 to 1.5 atom % with respect to the total number of atoms of Ni, Mn, and Co contained in the composite oxide particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Hayashi, Shun Kai Bong, Shinsuke Suganuma, Toshihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20220344656
    Abstract: To provide a positive electrode active material capable of further reducing positive electrode resistance and exhibiting better output characteristics. A positive electrode active material includes a coating layer formed of a metal composite oxide of Li and one or more metal elements selected from Al, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W on at least a part of a surface of lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide particles, and has d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 2.0 to 5.0 m2/g, a tap density of 1.0 to 2.0 g/cm3, and an oil absorption amount of 30 to 60 ml/100 g, in which the amount of metal elements other than Li contained in the coating layer is 0.1 to 1.5 atom % with respect to the total number of atoms of Ni, Mn, and Co contained in the composite oxide particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Hayashi, Shun Kai Bong, Shinsuke Suganuma, Toshihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20220271272
    Abstract: The method includes: a dry mixing process of mixing a tungsten compound with a lithium nickel manganese cobalt-containing composite oxide that is a base material to obtain a mixture; a water spray mixing process of spraying water to the mixture while the mixture is stirred, to mix the mixture; a heat treatment process of subjecting the mixture obtained after the water spray mixing process to a heat treatment at a temperature of 500° C. or lower; and a drying process of drying the mixture obtained after the heat treatment process at a temperature of 500° C. or lower to obtain a W- and Li-containing compound-coated lithium nickel manganese cobalt-containing composite oxide in which fine particles and coating films of a W- and Li-containing compound exist on a surface of the primary particles, and in at least drying process, the drying is performed using a vacuum dry mixing apparatus in a vacuum atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kato, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Willy Shun Kai Bong
  • Publication number: 20220030285
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 11159830
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20200280746
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 10645424
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 10072593
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention executes air-fuel ratio control based on an output of an air-fuel ratio sensor provided at an upstream side of a catalyst, with correction based on an output of an oxygen sensor at a downstream side of the catalyst. When it is determined that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined lean region is not less than a predetermined lean degree, and that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined rich region is less than a predetermined rich degree based on lean tendency and rich tendency values representing output tendencies of the oxygen sensor, a limit is set to the correction in a direction to more suppress enriching of an air-fuel ratio as a degree is larger in which the output of the oxygen sensor is shifted to a lean side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahide Okada, Masashi Hakariya, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Isao Nakajima, Toshihiro Kato, Yuya Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9752523
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller is programmed to perform correction amount guard control allowing adjustment of a correction amount by setting a limit on the correction amount when an appearance frequency of a state where an output value from a downstream sensor is leaner than a predetermined value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. When a state where the output value from the downstream sensor is leaner than the predetermined value lasts for a duration equal to or longer than a predetermined time, an incorporation speed at which, during learning control, the correction amount for sub feedback control is incorporated into a learning value is set to a larger value that when the duration is shorter than the predetermined time, and performance of the correction amount guard control is suppressed until the learning control is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Yoshikawa, Tokiji Ito, Isao Nakajima, Hiroaki Tsuji, Toshihiro Kato, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Yoshifumi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20160316231
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 9418704
    Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Takuya Imaide, Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Naozumi Sugimura, Nozomu Shimoda
  • Patent number: 9341544
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes a sensor nick abnormality detecting unit configured to detect a nick abnormality in a detecting element of a downstream side sensor which is provided in a downstream side of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in an exhaust passage and generates an output corresponding to an oxygen concentration in exhaust gas, on the basis of a matter that a distribution of an output of the downstream side sensor is biased to an area in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than a theoretical air-fuel ratio, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit detection of the nick abnormality of the detecting element by the sensor nick abnormality detecting unit in the case that an intake air amount exceeds a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Nakajima, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Tatsuro Shimada, Toshihiro Kato, Yuya Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9324359
    Abstract: Data recording and reproduction systems, apparatus, and methods provide efficient recording of and reproduction from storage media having multiple surfaces. In particular, a grouping processing unit groups data based on several factors. The grouped data can then be efficiently stored on storage media having multiple sides to increase the efficiency of storage and retrieval of such data. For example, data belonging to the same group is not stored on two surfaces of the same storage media to avoid having to remove and reverse the direction of the storage media in order to store data on or retrieve data from the other side of the storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: HITACHI—LG DATA STORAGE, INC., HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Yamasaki, Shinichi Shimoda, Shimpei Usui, Toshihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20160076474
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller is programmed to perform correction amount guard control allowing adjustment of a correction amount by setting a limit on the correction amount when an appearance frequency of a state where an output value from a downstream sensor is leaner than a predetermined value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. When a state where the output value from the downstream sensor is leaner than the predetermined value lasts for a duration equal to or longer than a predetermined time, an incorporation speed at which, during learning control, the correction amount for sub feedback control is incorporated into a learning value is set to a larger value that when the duration is shorter than the predetermined time, and performance of the correction amount guard control is suppressed until the learning control is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya YOSHIKAWA, Tokiji ITO, Isao NAKAJIMA, Hiroaki TSUJI, Toshihiro KATO, Yoshihisa ODA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Masahide OKADA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 9277189
    Abstract: A function of being controlled by a second monitor camera controller is added to a first monitor camera controller which controls a plurality of monitor cameras. The second monitor camera controller is caused to recognize the first monitor camera controller as a monitor camera. The first monitor camera controller synthesizes videos from the monitor cameras as one video, and transmits the synthetic video to the second monitor camera controller. Control of the monitor cameras or acquisition of videos is conducted by controlling the first monitor camera controller recognized as a monitor camera by use of a control function of a part or all of pan, tilt and zoom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Nishiura, Toshihiro Kato
  • Publication number: 20160003181
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention executes air-fuel ratio control based on an output of an air-fuel ratio sensor provided at an upstream side of a catalyst, with correction based on an output of an oxygen sensor at a downstream side of the catalyst. When it is determined that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined lean region is not less than a predetermined lean degree, and that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined rich region is less than a predetermined rich degree based on lean tendency and rich tendency values representing output tendencies of the oxygen sensor, a limit is set to the correction in a direction to more suppress enriching of an air-fuel ratio as a degree is larger in which the output of the oxygen sensor is shifted to a lean side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahide OKADA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Yoshihisa ODA, Hiroaki TSUJI, Tokiji ITO, Isao NAKAJIMA, Toshihiro KATO, Yuya YOSHIKAWA